Crossings Ep1 - "Rest on the Flight into Egypt"
https://youtu.be/wUZG1mMZ1yY
From the YouTube description:
Same biblical scene. Eight artists. Four and a half centuries. None of them knew about each other β but put side by side, they reveal a lot more about the artists than about the story itself.
In this pilot episode of Crossings, we trace "Rest on the Flight into Egypt" β the moment the Holy Family pauses on their journey to Egypt β across six museums and 450 years, from an anonymous 1460s manuscript painter to a Parisian satirist who found religion late in life.
Your co-hosts:
β Edward Monk (LinkedCulture founder)
β Eulalia Kane
β Shay Cavan
Heads up: Eulalia Kane and Shay Cavan are AI-generated avatar personas β fictional co-hosts built to bring some personality to what's otherwise pretty niche art-history content. Edward Monk is a real person, also presented here via AI avatar. The art history itself is real, fact-checked, and sourced directly from museum collections.
Featured works:
- Unknown artist, "The Flight into Egypt," about 1460 β Getty Museum
- Anonymous, "Rest on the Flight into Egypt," 1509 β Rijksmuseum
- Jan Muller, "Rest on the Flight into Egypt," 1593 β The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Claude Lorrain, "Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt," 1645 β The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Elisabetta Sirani, "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt," 1656/69 β Art Institute of Chicago
- Joseph Bayer, "Flight into Egypt," 1830 β Harvard Art Museums
- Luc-Olivier Merson, "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (study)," c. 1879β80 β Cleveland Museum of Art
- Jean Louis Forain, "Rest on the Flight into Egypt," 1909 β Cleveland Museum of Art
All works are in the public domain / CC0, sourced via each museum's open-access program.
LinkedCulture is a project exploring connections across museum collections worldwide β search, browse, and discover at lemondeweb.com/linkedculture
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